2018 Chicago Prize Competition - Crossing the Line , Chicago / Vereinigte Staaten

2018 Chicago Prize Competition - Crossing the Line

Organizers
The Chicago Architectural Club
Chicago, Illinois USA
www.chicagoarchitecturalclub.org

The Competition
Chicago is a product of its lines - lines that conceptually and physically demarcate, regulate, contain, separate , and knit together our physical environment. These seams and boundaries, through their thickness and content, have the power to both connect and divide. Some lines, like the invisible one that Eugene Williams inadvertently crossed, segregate groups of people to devastating effect without leaving a physical trace. Others, such as those encircling parishes and neighborhoods, bring people together and foster identities that remain strong even after the lines themselves disappear from maps. Ward and police district boundaries can determine the distribution of power and resources between communities. Zoning boundaries separate the cityscape into distinct parcels, their character and growth set into motion by planners for decades to come. Revitalized infrastructural lines, such as the 606, are a magnet for visitors and investors, setting off a ripple of urban regeneration along their length.

Crossing the Line will investigate these lines and many others, and the issues they raise in the city of Chicago.

For this year’s Chicago Prize, we are calling for visionary proposals that cross the line. Participants are asked to select one or multiple material and/or immaterial lines that form Chicago, identify their significance, and propose a design that addresses the urban ramifications of these lines.

Can the materialization of invisible lines through architectural interventions create agency?
Can strategies that reinforce or erase a line function as a framework that can create change? Would new strategies of thickening a line merge stand-alone districts?
Can architectural interventions function as a framework for the excitation of a line?
How can the urban-architectural collision and negotiation of two sides create a radical emergence of the unimaginable?

Choose your Line.

Competition Type
Open Ideas Competition

Admission Area
International

Eligibility
The 2018 Chicago Prize Competition is open to anyone with a vision for Crossing the Line: students, architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, designers and artists.

Schedule
Competition Launched with Online Registration &
Question and Answer Period opens: Nov. 30, 2018
Question and Answer Period closes: Dec. 20, 2018
Early Registration closes: Dec. 27, 2018
Online Registration closes and
Submission are due at noon CST: Jan. 21, 2019
Jury Meeting: Jan. 28, 2019
Winners Announced & Exhibition Opening Event
(Location will be announced in December): Feb. 28, 2019

Awards
1st Prize: $1,500
2nd Prize: $1,000
3rd Prize: $500
Honorable mentions may be awarded at the
discretion of the jury but will receive no cash prize.

More information and documents at
chicagoarchitecturalclub.org/2018-Chicago-Prize